# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-j-meyer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:42:09.405Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-j-meyer"
name: "Barbara J. Meyer"
slug: "barbara-j-meyer"
description: "Barbara J. Meyer is a biologist and geneticist, noted for her pioneering research on lambda phage, a virus that infects bacteria; discovery of the master control gene involved in sex determination; and studies of gene regulation, particularly dosage compensation. Meyer's work has revealed mechanisms of sex determination and dosage compensation—that balance X-chromosome gene expression between the sexes in Caenorhabditis elegans that continue to serve as the foundation of diverse areas of study on chromosome structure and function today."
tagline: "American biologist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.04
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.670842666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Barbara J. Meyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "باربرا جاي ماير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_J._Meyer"
    title: "Barbara J. Meyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Барбара Џ. Мајер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Мейер, Барбара Джин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump